Get into the new school year groove with by adding these Diigo bookmarks to your edtech toolbox! Yep, check out the links shown below for some of the latest and greatest “Cool Tools” and/or web resources that can be integrated into your lessons and activities! » WatchKnowLearn A free online video library with links to […]

Over 1 million ebooks have been created using Book Creator for iPad since its launch in 2011, at a rate of 80,000 per week. In order to celebrate this and make the app even more accessible, the developers are launching a free version. The Full version of the app will continue to be priced at […]

Want to uncover the thrilling tales of the downright unusual? Or how about stepping into the mysterious world of the weird future?  If you have these uncontrollable urges, you can satisfy them and more by delving into Pulp-O-Mizer, a fabulous web resource for generating retro pulp magazine covers. Yep, get all early nineteen-hundreds by mimicking […]

Yeah, we all know how much students like to text, right? So, why not take advantage of a “cool tool” like iFakeText, a nifty online generator that looks like the real thing. It’s super simple to use as well as a visually engaging way to allow students to demonstrate what they know in a unique […]

So, I saw this cartoon on the Teaching Ideas Facebook page this morning and I cracked up. For one, it’s just funny—and of course, oh, so true. I mean, let’s face it: Many of the digital natives (students) in our classrooms are just about as clueless about the parts of speech as most of the […]

Tech guru Lisa Johnson introduced me to this fabulous resource right on time.  My students are beginning a geometry unit, and I can’t think of a better way to expose them to the voluminous vocabulary than using thinglink!  What is thinglink?  Check it out here. To make my own creation, I designed a slide in […]

Writing Prompts is a Tumblr blog packed full of image-based prompts that can be incorporated into daily and/or creative writing activities. To date, there are 300+ thought provoking ideas in a variety of categories available to utilize with your students with additional prompts posted regularly. Check out a few Writing Prompts examples shown below: Some prompts are […]

As I reflect upon the last year in terms of educational technology and the impact it continues to have on student learning and achievement, I thought I would compile a list of my favorite web tools—those that have transformed reading, writing, critical thinking, collaborating and creating in my classroom. Check out my 2012 collection of […]

The cool ways in which an educator can use Thinglink in the classroom are numerous! My latest brainstorm has come in the form of a collage of avatars my students generated using FaceYourManga, a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create, modify, collect and/or share cartoon-like avatars. These alter-egos of my students have been linked to their […]

OK, so maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration! But some of my students really are just killing me lately with some of the careless errors thay have been making in their writing assignments—particularly with capitalization and punctuation. A result of too much texting? Perhaps, but I don’t see that craze going away anytime soon. So instead of […]